Ms Mason has betrayed good government, the Second Ward and the truth. Clearly her position on anything is a function of who or what she believes will land her in the mayor's seat and beyond. As a function of this, she has made terrible choices of late, including aligning herself with Michael Russo, all in her quest for power. She has done a complete about face on most every position she ever held. Hoboken needs a Second Ward councilperson who has Hoboken's best interest at heart, not their own or their cronies. I urge you to support Mr Greaney for Second Ward Councilperson. Thank you.

Yep! Mason would be mayor today if she had not thrown her base to the side by jumping in with the Church Towers vote and then cementing the relationship by letting Mama Russo select her running mates. (Let's be honest Mikey ain't the brains of that outfit)

And she has just gotten worse. It makes me thing 2007 Mason was a liar. All she wants is power, no matter what it takes

Good list 1653 but I'd add that Mike Russo claimed on the FBI vidoe *he* selected the 3 stooges to run as council candidates with Mason in 2009, and I found his boast credible, his later denial, only after the tape came out, much less credible.

2009 is when lots of us went from respect for Beth Mason, and trying to figure out how she and other reformers should work out their rivalries, personal rivalries are only human, to zero respect for Beth Mason. It wasn't based on any hypnotic cult of personality of Dawn Zimmer (I've never had the pleasure of meeting either Zimmer or Mason in person) but *Mason's* actions on the issues and who she aligned herself with. And it's only gotten worse since, much worse. Please, Second Ward voters, yours might be the most important election. Consider carefully how best to move Hoboken forward, and please vote for Tom Greaney.

Maybe you can run up and down the street screaming Beth Mason is a liar like you did yesterday. You looked like those idiots who stand on a corner in Manhattan screaming that the world is coming to an end. Though they are right in some regard. Tom Greaney's time in the political world is without a doubt coming to an end.

Greaney's campaign is being run by Jack Butchko the former Vice Chairman of the HCDO under Bobby J. This guy is either inept or reckless, but he is full of crap. Greaney has no character.

Oh I think her lawyers have explained the definition of wheeling to her and but her political consultants have given her a set reply that has nothing to do with what is correct or true but what will get her threw the interviews when asked to justify her actions.

But she did get something in return, as Rami P. pointed out to her at a CC meeting. She got the vote to become the council president, delivered by the one and only beneficiary of her largess, TIMMAY! And with that vote came an additional 15k as the CC President. She ceratainly did get someting in return. What an effing tool she is.

Thanks for pointing out that K. Even when she tries to lie and come up w/ a BS story, she still ends up lying by accident. What a moron.

I think you're the stupid person, Melissa.

You are allowed to donate $2,600 per candidate.

I'll take Greaney any day of the week over Mason who has shown a lack of understanding about the budget. Ochipinti is a moron and the Russo/Castellano contingent have proven over decades they are more interested in robbing Hoboken.

What is up with Mason's resume did she phoney it up like it has been said she did ?

http://grafixavenger.blogspot.com

Is her only real accomplishment in life being luck enough to be married to a very rich man ?

One truly funny moment from the last City Council meeting is when Occhipinti looked lost and a pissed Mason reached over an pointed to his note book and then he haltingly tried to read his scripted comment. :-)

"Al," thought I made this clear. I'm paying you to promote me for Council/Mayor, not argue ancient history.
Keep slamming Tom Greaney!

I approve and pay for THAT message!

You can go stick it. DEVELOP OR DIE!

Did you even name anyone running for office but that greedy willing to take a bribe Russo character? No so stuff it already.

2ndWeirdAL, being a paid political operative means getting paid to tell my lies, not fighting over minor petty squabbles years ago.

Zimmer just said not only does Mike Russo not belong on a seat at the Hoboken Housing Authority, he doesn't deserve to be a sitting councilman because he broke the trust of the people. We have to stand by Mike Russo. Tell Mason411 to finish that other smear piece already. What is Lame doing?

This isn't helping me. I'm getting nervous. Have all the Applied Housing people gotten their receipts to get paid when they vote/work for my campaign yet? Make sure they know it's now up to $75 per vote.

If this doesn't work out I'm going to have to move to and run for mayor in West New York. Me llamo Bet. Que pasa amigo?

Get the street money out into the street Al!!

Anytime Zimmer looks bad people claim the person making the point is corrupt or a paid operative. Zimmer's team has 6 different consultants according to ELEC reports. None of them live in Hoboken, except Melli and Bryan who are paid on the taxpayers' dime. They were given big raises on the same day the Mayor announced she was firing cops.

Her and her team are using consultants from New Hampshire, Ohio, New York, and Bayonne.

Greaney's commercial is exactly the same wording as the guy who is running his campaign:

Watch Jack Butchko's tv spot and then watch Greaney's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZMzuSNQV4g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYbjZNWoMh4&feature=player_embedded

Butchko ran for 2nd Ward City Council in Bayonne and got smoked. He came in 4th place in a 4 candidate race.

Mason will crush this Greaney clown "that's not a promise that's a commitment."

Funny, aren't a couple of the people on the CC taking health insurance? Like Nino and his entire family? And what about Russo's Momma and Poppa (who were taking it ILLEGALLY!). But I doubt you care much about them taking insurance benefits.

Well, last time she ran for office, she wasn't buying votes. Based on what SHE helped perpetrate in November, I expect she will take that step this time around.

Oh, she was paying for votes, she just wasn't receiving them. Checks made out to "cash" and what-not.

Thanks for your sage advice Hobo87, I thought freedom of speech was still something practiced in this country.
How do YOU help reform?-attacking supporters of the people you support?

I am not a fan of Tony's at all. But so long as he stops trying to run for office or various boards, I could care less what he does. But Tony, you have to admit, the fact that you had to go to the RUSSOs to get on any board pretty much tarnishes your credentials for a long long time. That being said, there is no way in hell that makes Beth any more palatable than a plate of day old vomit.

Tony, why do you get medical benefits for $6.25 a month for your no-show job?

Mason is the reason reform is alive and well in Hoboken, not Zimmer. In the last month Zimmer's Public Safety Director resigned after admitting to meeting with the FBI, her Parking Authority Director was arrested for assualting and employee and stealing a City bus, a Council candidate was exposed as a dead beat who doesn't pay his bills, and a BOE candidate she supports had an open warrant for his arrest and was arrested for assualting a woman. Maybe when she is done calling Brian Stack a sexist she can address the low life who assualted a woman.

Zimmer is a false idol in the reform community. She is in over her head and doesn't have the tools to do the job.

Develop or Die
CT PILOT w/o means testing
Checks made out to "cash", self-investigation still underway (yeah right)
Huge last-minute cash infusion to BOE slate 1 year after saying keep municipal politics out of BOE
Wheeling 13k plus to fund vote-for-cash operation in 4th ward
Gets council presidency in midnight power grab as a thanks for all the laundering and funneling
Tries to spring 3 bogus surprise legislations w/o giving council colleagues time to read them before voting
Lends out hired PR gun to try to derail police union negotiations
Leaks confidential city negotiation/settlement info to 411, which she denies coordinating
Leads effort to get the city to default on garage financing for political gain, city's loss
Repeatedly tries to derail hospital sale/preservation for political gain, city's loss
Sends operative to play "John Q Public" at council meetings, "report" on them for blog and work as campaign smear merchant/character assassin all at once
Wages personal vendettas, sanctions/funds disgusting smears of any and all potential rivals
Hates/envies mayor, doesn't care about good policy for Hoboken
Ruins POG, turns reputable good-govt group into personal political vehicle to attack Ravi Bhalla while sitting silent or flaccid on real corruption.
Reform is alive and well when Mason is gone, she is a cancer and the source and financier of all things ugly.

Mason should spend her millions trying to fix her looks. She's only 50? I thought she was at least 60.

Maybe that evil from the inside is leaking out. She's no reformer. She's bad for Hoboken. The only thing Mason can do to help this town is leave. She must stop her reckless pursuit of the council seat & constant funding of bad people.

Kids from Bayonne hired by Jack Butchko: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZMzuSNQV4g

And none of them got $40 checks either.

I saw them. It was horrible, Zimmerteeneez everywhere.

Mason paid hundreds of people to vote for her in the last election and will be doing the same this time.

Remember those dozens of pages of lists of checks made out to CASH ! Remember she and her campaign promised to explain them but never did.

Remember when she need an extra vote on the City Council she wheeled $13,400.00 to buy five hundred people in the Fourth Ward for Occhipinti.

Beth Mason has been willing to pay any price to stay in power. Even if she has had to sell her integrity to do it.

I guess he's running up the credit cards to put people on the streets. After all, he can just declare bankruptcy and run to Japan again!

Or maybe he just won't pay his workers. It's probably easier to stiff the people working for him than the credit card companies.

No, they're citizens. I was one of them. You don't recognize them because you don't live here. And because of the campaigns you associate with, it's impossible for you to think of large numbers of people doing something out of a sense of citizenship rather than for money. I don't need 10 bucks, sparky.

$10/hr in your dreams. You just can't comprehend the fact that true believers don't need to get paid to support what they believe in b/c you don't believe in anything but what you are paid to believe.

I volunteer for campaigns freely! And my secret identity of HobokenOwl is kept under lock and key.

Come knock on my door then some night if you think you know who I am. Guarantee you that you will be off by more than a few blocks. I am at work waiting for the market to open and reading the paper. Nice try though.

Do you see him paying 50% of the voters who voted for him? Please, give it a rest you twit. Only the people you support buy votes. If he hires some kids who DON'T VOTE in Hoboken, I could care less. In fact, I am happy he is deliberately hiring NONRESIDENTS when he hires anyone. Mason does the opposite. She pays people and all they do is hand over their properly filled out absentee ballot in exchange for a check.

You just went off about Greaney's workers all being from Hoboken and now say it is okay that they are from Union City. Mason doesn't pay anyone for votes. Zimmer on the other hand used lottery tickets and $50 checks to buy the 4th Ward City Council seat.

Al, learn to read. You are getting who you are responding to all mixed up. But as for who's Tom's workers are, I saw plenty of my neighbors out supporting Tom on the streets yesterday. I saw nobody from the neighborhood supporting Beth. She really is hated in town. Hope when she loses, your paycheck doesn't bounce. Of course, if she paid you based on the quality of your work, she'd probably ask for a refund b/c you suck at convincing people your mistress isn't a rotten, dirty scoundrel.

As for Mason not buying votes, please, she funded Timmay's vote buying binge and last time she ran for office, there were all sorts of irregularities that to this day have never been cleared up.

This weekend there were about 8 people working for Tom. Only 1 is paid thru the consulting group that oversees field operations. I worked with the 1 paid person. Beth on the other hand has a legion of $10 per hour paid workers. Quite a difference in my book.

I didn't see any of Beth's people. Sure they didn't call it a day once they turned in their ballot?

Roman does it well enough to upset the Mason/Russo crew. :-)

Check it and see,

http://hobokenhorse.blogspot.com

Nice try there "hero". Roman's blog is well read & factually accurate. Unlike other blogs in town, he actually reports the news.

all-
FTR, I'm not redrider. I don't even sound like redrider. We both posted at the same time on MSV & HJ for a while. I do agree with most of redrider's thoughts, but I am he/she. Clearly you all have too much time on your hands if you're worried about where I'm at and if I'm posting.

He's a lowlife and just calls people names. There is nothing intellectual or meaningful about his site and it doesn't elevate the discussion of serious political issues.

Projecting much there hobokenzero? There is real news on that site including interviews w/ candidates, letters from the various candidates, analysis of BOE and CC meetings, copies of campaign filings, analysis of the voting and vote buying results, snow emergency announcements, updates on various issues that matter, etc... For fluff you can go to that other site that has no traffic and no news. But for news, MSV, HJ and even Patch is where it is at.

Keep telling yourself that and you just might believe it. Tomorrow we'll see whether we're the bunch of dummies you take us for.

Yeah, well expect a load of horse crap if you get an answer from Mason. You probably got the honest answer (IDK) when you were on the line w/ the county. The damage is worse than they thought according to a previous poster so will take the county longer than expected.